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As expected for a season finale, everything on Big Love‘s finale was falling to pieces. But then, oddly enough, everything came together in the end. So much for a cliffhanger. I’m totally satisfied with everyone being, well, satisfied, but I wasn’t left with the usual finale need to see more right now!

For Big Love this week, it was a wedding and no funerals… for now. It looks as if Alby isn’t poisoning Roman, but giving him drugs to keep him asleep. But, as he told Nicki, Roman doesn’t have much longer. And her husband was involved in Roman getting shot. That’s a little strain on the marriage. Showing up to make a three-wife scene at Barb‘s mother’s wedding didn’t exactly reduce the strain either.

Is it just me or is Alby killing Roman? Considering Alby’s a power-hungry phony, and the camera was focused in quite a foreboding way on Roman’s medicine drip for quite a while, I’m going to say it’s true. While Alby’s killing his father and taking over the compound, his dear sister Nicki is taking down the entire Henrickson ship which is also to the benefit of Alby’s take-over.

Margie‘s realizing she does have power in the family, Nicki‘s realizing how fun gambling is, and Barb is realizing her family is changing against her will. The wives of Big Love are certainly more than just mothers and wives who share a husband: they are women struggling with their place in the world and with their own demons as well.

What man wouldn’t want to wake up to three women in robes standing over him? A man with three toe-tapping wives, that’s who. Though this week’s Big Love was packed full of scandal, drama, and even blood, the genius humor of the show was still shining through. Big Love does a great job of doing justice to the realities of what having three wives would really be like for a man, polygamist beliefs aside.

While it’s been clear since the beginning of Big Love that the Henricksons are hiding their family and ways from the community in general, the complications of dealing with it with the family they had before they entered this one has developed into quite a problem for all of the wives.

It seemed as if Nicki had it the easiest with her parents and family still living on the compound so not only accepting of her choice to be a polygamist, but they would have been been against her decision if she didn’t.

While the first season of Big Love pulled in viewers by creating such a loving and relatable family, so far season two has been an interesting combination of alienating viewers from the polygamist life of the characters as we realize how “odd” it is to us, and pulling viewers in even more as we feel defensive of our dear characters against the cruel world that doesn’t understand them.